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Author_Rikke Andreassen
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China Exhibition
colonial exhibitions
copenhagen
Copenhagen Zoo
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danish
Danish Audiences
Danish Colonies
Danish Exhibitions
Danish Race
Danish Scientists
Danish West Indies
Danish Women
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ethnographic displays
European human zoos history
feminist theory
Fine Day
Human Exhibitions
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India Exhibition
indies
Interracial Relationships
Japan Exhibition
Japanese Wrestlers
kyrgyz
Lace Maker
Meddelelser Om
Og Den
postcolonial studies
scientific racism
St Croix
tidende
west
whiteness studies
Yellow Peril
Young Man
zoo
Product details
- ISBN 9780367599089
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen Zoo, where different ’villages’, constructed in the middle of the zoo, hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for months, performing their ’daily lives’ for thousands of curious Danes. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and newspaper articles, to offer new insights and perspectives on the exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities. Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material, the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race, science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination with ’the exotic’, and contemporary language and popular culture. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology and history working in the areas of gender and sexuality, race, whiteness and post-colonialism.
Rikke Andreassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies at Roskilde University, Denmark.
